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More Fully rendered Textures and Buildings

Everything that I'm posting here is free to use without any limitations. Now I'm going to show you a number of textures that I made in Photoshop last weekend.
Please Enjoy and use these elements with your own maps if you wish to do so.

These are really great. Are you able to get the renders without any perspective on them as they would look a little warped when more than one were placed next to each other from having multiple viewpoints for the items.

Can you post the objects without the black background though? I can probably remove the background with PhotoShop's background eraser, but since there are black areas in the objects themselves it will be rough.

Regarding the renders, if you use a top down orthogonal camera that would remove the perspective and make them a little less jarring when rotated at different angles.

Bill Stickers is innocent! It isn't Bill's fault that he was hanging out in the wrong place.Please make an effort to tag all threads. This will greatly enhance the usability of the forums.

Yea, I'm fully versed in most PS techniques. I would likely use the Pen rather than the lasso much more accurate in my opinion and doesn't have aliasing issues. Was just hoping you could save everyone some time by rerendering. I was actually more interested in the Palm Tree than the buildings. Which season of Doctor Who are you watching?

Last edited by RPMiller; 11-19-2008 at 06:48 PM.

Bill Stickers is innocent! It isn't Bill's fault that he was hanging out in the wrong place.Please make an effort to tag all threads. This will greatly enhance the usability of the forums.